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Anthony Trollope

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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.


— Anthony Trollope


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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.


— Anthony Trollope


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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.


— Anthony Trollope


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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.


— Anthony Trollope


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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.


— Anthony Trollope


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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.


— Anthony Trollope


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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.


— Anthony Trollope


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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.


— Anthony Trollope


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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.


— Anthony Trollope


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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.


— Anthony Trollope


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Did you know about Anthony Trollope?

: /ˈtrɒləp/; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In late 1859 Trollope learned of preparations for the release of the Cornhill Magazine to be publiAnthony Trolloped by George Murray Smith and edited by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century. Some of his best-loved works collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

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